210 – Ṣila ibn Zufar al-ʿAbsi al-Kūfī (ع)
A senior Successor, reliable, upright; his narrations appear in all the canonical collections.
He transmitted from ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, and ʿAmmār.
Those who related from him include Shatīr ibn Shakal, Abū Isḥāq, and Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī—though I doubt the last of these heard him directly, for it is said that Ṣila died during the period of Musʿab’s governorship over Iraq.
211 – Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm, Abū ʿAwf al-ʿĀmirī (م، 4)
One of the eminent Successors in al-Raqqa. His father—ʿAmr, though some say ʿAbd ʿAmr and others ʿUdas ibn Muʿāwiya—was a Companion. Yazīd was an imām, ḥāfiẓ, Abū ʿAwf al-ʿĀmirī, famed as al-Bakkāʾī (“the weeper”).
He narrated from: his maternal aunt, the Mother of the Believers Maymūna; her son Ibn ʿAbbās; ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ; Abū Hurayra; ʿĀʾisha; Muʿāwiya; ʿAwf ibn Mālik; and others.
His transmission from ʿAlī is not sound, even though he lived to meet him, for Yazīd was in Kūfa during ʿAlī’s caliphate.
Those who reported from Yazīd include his nephew ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Aṣamm, Maymūn ibn Mihrān, his nephew ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh, Rāshid ibn Kaysān, and Abū Isḥāq.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, vol. 6, p. 195; Khalifah, Tabaqat, no. 1006; al-Bukhari, Tarikh, vol. 4, p. 321; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, part 1 of vol. 2, p. 446; al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 9, p. 335; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 613; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 3, p. 163; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 2, p. 95b; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 4, p. 437; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 176.
(* *) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, vol. 7, p. 479; Khalifah, Tabaqat, no. 3067; al-Bukhari, Tarikh, vol. 8, p. 318; Yaʿqub b. Sufyan, al-Maʿrifah wa-t-Tarikh, vol. 1, p. 396; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, part 2 of vol. 4, p. 252; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, vol. 4, p. 97; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh, vol. 18, p. 124a; Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah, vol. 5, p. 104; al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, part 1 of vol. 2, p. 161; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1532; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 4, p. 210; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, p. 126; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 4, p. 172b; al-Fasi, al-ʿAqd al-Thamin, vol. 7, p. 460; Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah, no. 9381; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 11, p. 313; Ibn Hajar, Khulasa Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 430.